The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has discovered sensitive data of nearly 100 companies and government agencies in peer-to-peer networks. Then warnings were sent to the affected schools, local governments and businesses with up to tens of thousands of employees. When the retrieved data is information about customers and employees. They made possible identity theft, [...]

The worldwide mobile phone market has shrunk slightly last year. This is shown by recent figures from market research firm Gartner. The number of mobile phones sold decreased accordingly from the previous year by 0.9 percent from 1.222 billion to 1.211 billion units. Gartner had expected to last with a minus of 0.67 percent. In [...]

Association CompactFlash (CFA) announced the release of the recently approved a set of specifications CF5.0. The developers hope that through volume CF5.0 flash CompactFlash card can increase up to 144 petabytes. It could happen very soon. Recall that a working group was formed by CF5.0 about two years ago. Its main goal was to improve [...]

SoftMaker has launched a public beta test of the 2010 edition of his eponymous office suite for Linux, which is the current version of Microsoft Office compatible. Interested, the beta of SoftMaker Office 2010 for Linux to launch mid-March, the final try for free. The download is around 140 MB. The suite includes word processor [...]

Microsoft has moved the launch of its revised Dynamics NAV ERP solution 7 from the calendar year 2011 to 2012 – several months, possibly even more than a year. An indication to the analyst Rob Helm of Directions on Microsoft has now officially confirmed. Helm reported on Twitter also has a connector for Dynamics CRM, [...]

The owner of cable Germany (KDG), Providence Equity Partners intends to bring the cable operator to go public. Reports the daily newspaper “Die Welt”, referring to financial circles. The IPO could take place already in the next few weeks. A sale of the company no longer stand up for debate. According to the newspaper, preparations [...]

Intel is reportedly set up a heavy two billion dollar fund to invest exclusively in U.S. companies. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing company-related stakeholders. To this end, the first chip manufacturer holds talks with U.S. venture capital firms. A person familiar with the situation told the Journal that Intel is going with the proposal [...]

The author of Nagios Ethan Galstad Nagios Founded Enterprise has called on the French community around the open-source tool for network monitoring the release of the domain www.nagios-fr.org . To avoid a possible lawsuit for trademark protection violations, the French will respond to the request and move their offerings after monitoring-fr.org. Reason for the dispute [...]

Google sets up his advertising platforms. From DoubleClick’s DART for Publishers, DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), which is aimed at large publishers of online content. Smaller companies offer the free version of Google DFP Small Business, which replaces the Google Ad Manager. Existing users will be converted over the coming weeks. The ad management software, the [...]

In early 2010, AMD introduced five new processors for the platform AM3 – Athlon II X2 255, Athlon II X4 635, Athlon II X3 440, Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition and Phenom II X4 910e. The only representative of the Black Edition series offered users free multiplier, two processing cores, 6 MB cache in [...]

Continuing to expand its product line to support rapidly gaining popularity Hi-Speed ​​USB 3.0, RaidSonic company prepared to release brand ICY BOX three new cases for external hard drives, each of which has the above-mentioned interface with bandwidth up to 4.8 Gb / sec. Model RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-230StU3 designed to accommodate a 2.5-inch hard [...]

Microsoft and Amazon have signed an agreement that allows the two companies reciprocal access to patents. The contract includes Amazon’s Linux server and the e-book reader Kindle, which contains both proprietary and open source software components. Terms of the agreement, Microsoft and Amazon have agreed to maintain silence. The software vendor announced only that he [...]

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has initiated an investigation against Nokia. The U.S. trade authorities investigated a self-reported complaint from Apple, according to which violate a number of mobile phones and computers of the Finnish company’s patents held by Apple. In a press release, the ITC stated that the case of one of the six [...]

Lenovo a new “convertible tablet PC” has presented named X201. Product Manager Mika Majapuro stressed at the idea that they had deliberately decided against a iPad “slate” model like Apple’s. That will not be accepted by business customers. Convertible Tablet PC: Thinkpad X201 (Image: Lenovo) The difference: Slates come without a keyboard, while convertibles are [...]

On February 21 in California started PMA 2010 show, on which the main producers of photographic equipment have brought their new products. Japanese Casio showed a pair of new compact digital camera Exilim family under the symbol EX-S7 and EX-Z35. Both units belong to the category of decisions “point and shoot.” Model Casio Exilim EX-S7 [...]